Vermont Frost Heaves
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{{short description|Professional minor league basketball team in Cornwall, Vermont, United States}}
{{Infobox basketball club
| color1 = white
| color2 = #6eb8ea
| color3 = #0a26b2
| logo = FrostHeaves.PNG
| founded = 2005
| folded = 2011
| league = ABA 2005–08
PBL 2008–2011
| history = Vermont Frost Heaves
2005–2011
| arena = Barre Auditorium
Burlington Memorial Auditorium
| city = Cornwall, Vermont
| colors = light blue, blue, white
| owner = GO Heaves, Inc.
| coach = Joe Salerno
}}
The Vermont Frost Heaves were a professional basketball team in Vermont, United States, that last played in the Premier Basketball League, last coached by Joe Salerno.
History
The formation of the team was announced in December 2005 by founding owner Alexander Wolff, a Cornwall, Vermont, resident and writer for Sports Illustrated. The Heaves were originally part of the American Basketball Association from 2006 through 2008. They were the ABA Champions in the 2006–07 and the 2007–2008 seasons, under head coach Will Voigt.{{Cite web |last=McCune |first=Mike |title=Voigt looks back at time with Frost Heaves |url=https://www.wcax.com/2020/12/11/voigt-looks-back-at-time-with-frost-heaves/ |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=www.wcax.com |language=en}} The team is named for the frost heaving soil displacement known to affect colder climates.{{Cite web |title=We Bought a Team: From writer to ABA owner: My improbable saga with the Vermont Frost Heaves |url=https://www.si.com/longform/2015/frost-heaves/index.html |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=Sports Illustrated Longform |language=en}}
The Heaves were formed in 2005, and started playing in the fall of 2006 at the Auditorium in Barre, Vermont, and the Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont.
The Heaves started off with a 108–100 overtime loss at Quebec City before going on a 5-game win streak with wins over Montreal, Buffalo, Quebec City, and Cape Cod(2). An overtime loss at Strong Island was followed by a seven-game win streak ended by Quebec City in Barre, the team's first-ever home loss. Attendance was between 900 and 1,650 for the games.
The team ended the regular season 30–6. On March 29, 2007, the Frost Heaves won the ABA Championship, defeating the Texas Tycoons 143–95.
In the 2010 off-season, a group of local fans bought the team, which had been on the verge of collapse, and established a non-profit fan-owned corporation named GO Heaves, Inc. to operate the team. However, on January 26, 2011 (in the midst of the season), GO Heaves announced the team was ceasing operations.{{citation | title=Vermont Frost Heaves hoops team folds | url=http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110126/NEWS02/110126028/Vermont-Frost-Heaves-hoops-team-folds | publisher=Burlington Free Press | date=January 26, 2011 | access-date=January 26, 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Their players were subject to a dispersal draft.
References
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External links
- {{cite web|last1=Wolff|first1=Alexander|title=We Bought a Team|url=https://www.si.com/longform/2015/frost-heaves/index.html|website=Sports Illustrated|access-date=16 May 2015}} Alexander Wolff writes about running the team.
Category:Former Premier Basketball League teams
Category:Barre (city), Vermont
Category:Basketball teams in Vermont
Category:Defunct American Basketball Association (2000–present) teams
Category:Defunct sports clubs and teams in Vermont
Category:2005 establishments in Vermont
Category:2011 disestablishments in Vermont
Category:Basketball teams established in 2005